Text: Exam Physics 2414 - General Physics
Instructions: Answer each question completely; write your answers in the space provided. Partial credit will be given, but only if your work is clearly shown. Answers not clearly indicated in parentheses will be marked as incorrect. Point values are indicated.
Prof: Shadbraw, disguised as a mild-mannered physics professor, is working perfectly and no one suspects that he is the mastermind of a nefarious plot to take over the world. To put his latest scheme in motion, he steals the T-shirt cannon from the Comblips University cheerleaders. From a position on the roof of Snilloc Alumni Auditorium at a height of 37 m, he fires the cannon at an upward angle of 25°, nailing one of a group of hairless baseball players located on the ground at a horizontal distance of 63 m from his position.
a. (6) How long will the T-shirt be in the air?
b. (6) What is the initial speed of the T-shirt?
c. (6) What maximum height above its initial position will the T-shirt reach?
d. (6) With what velocity will the T-shirt hit the baseball player?